. >> good morning, thank you for the opportunity, my name is ro land, and first of all, i want to say a great thank you. we are going to miss you. the thing that wanted to touch on is the central subway, you have an opportunity opportunity here, not just to expand it not just to north beach, but all the way to the bay. and i will share with you with what we did with the channel ton el. they are 200 feet below the sea bed and provide a grounding, and so i strongly urge you to look at the possibility of going all the way to the bay, burying them, assure you that there are a lot of people down there that will back you up when you go after the funding, thank you and happy holidays. >> thank you very much i know that we have a number of speaker cards for items but if you would like to come up and say anything on this item. come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. and i also wanted to before we move forward to the next item. i wanted to give an opportunity to the chief deputy. and to make remarks about him